Either ai is viable, in which case there's a massive change coming to the social and economic order that will require either extraordinary peaceful, progressive reform or violent redistribution- or it isn't- in which case this is, indeed, a massive depression-sized bubble.

Ok, but have you considered: *Staring out at the programs and institutions that built the American middle class and century of prosperity slowly working towards equity and equality "Why don't boomers simply build new solutions and institutions" 'We don't know how to, we just inherited some'

This process is also why we can't have nice things. The money gets bled off and routed up.

You can tell who is stealing the societal wealth by looking at who has it

The moment your group wins they become the target for the next round.

Conservatism is fundamentally about how some people are "in" and some are "out".

They don't have ideas or goals, they have enemies. They're gonna burn through excuses and friends and scapegoats.

A constantly shrinking circle

If we let them remove animal rights they can work on human rights, if they remove human rights from prisoners, illegals, etc they can move harder on women and non-whites, if they get that they can come for speech and movement and privacy of everyone.
Poor white men are only 'safe' until alone

It's "fun" to look at studies of what audiences feel is equal representation. 1 woman to three men feels equal to the average audience and 2:2 feels female dominated.

Which.. somehow isn't telling on ourselves for thinking men actually are less than women